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20
Jul
2018

Literature Review and Classification: Monetary Policy and Equity Market Volatility

Journal of Financial Studies and Research
This article presents an analysis of the literature on monetary policy and equity volatility. The study analyzed and classified 67 articles that were published from between 2010 to end of 2017 in the databases Web of Science, ScienceDirect and Springer. The articles were identified using…
19
Jul
2018

Investigating the Role of Organizational Culture in Facilitating Continuous Improvement within Saudi Non-profit Organizations

Journal of Human Resources Management Research
It has been confirmed that organizational culture has a significant impact on facilitating continuous improvement, although it is not clear yet how this impact can be achieved. On the other hand, nonprofit organizations struggle mainly in sustaining resources and increasing the quality of the services…
18
Jul
2018

Investment Attractiveness Assessment of Global Russian Companies

Journal of Economics Studies and Research
This study investigates the effects of value-based management framework adoption for assessment of investment attractiveness in one of the most promising developing markets in Russia. One of the most attractive sectors of the Russian economy is selected for the analysis: the retail grocery sector which…
16
Jul
2018

A Quantitative Analysis of the M&As with Community Dimension in the European Union

Journal of Research in Industrial Organization
Given its amplitude, the M&A phenomenon appears to restructure industries or to create companies with a size which was unimaginable, not decades but years ago. As a result, there was an obvious preoccupation of the regulatory commissions for controlling these types of concentrations and to…
13
Jul
2018

The Influence of Green Supply Chain Practices towards Environmental Development: The Malaysian ISO14001 Certified Manufacturing Companies Perspective

Journal of Southeast Asian Research
This study examines the influence of green supply chain practices towards environmental development. There has been an increasing interest among scholars concerning the influence of green supply chain practices towards environmental development in the manufacturing industry due to its vast environmental effect and the rising…
12
Jul
2018

Auditors’ Liability and Investors’ Protection in Canada: The ‘Leaky Umbrella’

Journal of Accounting and Auditing: Research & Practice
In the spring of 1997, the Supreme Court of Canada (“Court”) rendered a decision  in Hercules Managements Ltd. v. Ernst & Young [1997] (“Hercules”) that left shareholders out in the cold. Ever since the verdict in Hercules was released, the audit profession has been shielded…
10
Jul
2018

A Study on the Characteristics of the Romanian Merger Market in the European Context

Journal of Eastern Europe Research in Business and Economics
Viewed from the perspective of the players on the economic markets, mergers and acquisitions, known as M&As, are external growth strategies that enable entities to develop their businesses by leveraging the financial, human, or economic resources of other companies. The purpose of this article is…
09
Jul
2018

The Contribution of Management Control to the Improvement of University Performance

Journal of North African Research in Business
This article is devoted to the Moroccan public University. It is in the field of public higher education. It aims to identify the contribution of management control to the achievement of one of the main objectives of the Moroccan University, which is to improve performance…
07
Jul
2018

Leadership Styles: Moderating Impact on Job Stress and Health

Journal of Human Resources Management Research
A straight relationship between stress and outcomes is well documented, but scarce studies adequately tested the range of mediated, moderated and additive effects of variables on outcomes that may strengthen or weaken this relationship. The present study based on Bass Model of Leadership, investigating the…
06
Jul
2018

Management Accounting Practices (MAPs) Impact on Small and Medium Enterprise Business Performance within the Gauteng Province of South Africa

Journal of Accounting and Auditing: Research & Practice
The following article focuses on determining the effect of Management Accounting Practices (MAPs) on the performance of Small & Medium sized Enterprises (SME). The SMEs studied in the research belong to the Gauteng Province of South Africa. The article has introduced different concepts that are…